Away from their tormentors, they become lovers, and, impossibly, you find yourself actually rooting for them.

So "Star Wars" is actually rooting for a lost past, not a brave new future.

"I'm actually rooting for her in the end not to make the same mistakes she just painted out three or four times earlier."

Then last month there was the latest: a landlord-tenant dispute, which may be the only one of its kind where you actually rooted for the landlord.

"I guess I've never done an analysis where my client is actually rooting for the big bony man with the black hood and sickle."

You will be one of the few, the proud, who actually root for this ridiculous expansion venture.

Chakotay couldn't shake the sense that somewhere, Montgomery was actually rooting for him.

It would be a way of checking him out at one remove, metaphorically, without actually rooting through his head.

I never thought I'd see the day when I actually rooted for the Yankees.